On Nov 30, 2006, at 0800 , Chad Fowler wrote:
> On 11/30/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain at segment7.net> wrote:
>> When using rubygems with a program that has (or will) be using the
>> built-in open-uri, rubygems causes an infinite loop because
>> Kernel#open is redefined twice.
>>>> I'd like to prevent the namespace collision.
>>>> Is rubygems/open-uri still necessary? What was the issue with the
>> rubygems open-uri?
>> There was an open-uri bug in an old Ruby distribution. The svn log
> seems to indicate that it was Ruby 1.8.1:
>> I think we're OK just removing it. If someone's OK running ruby
> 1.8.1, they're probably OK with running an old RubyGems too :) I've
> removed it from svn.
Great. I removed the reference in Gem::RemoteFetcher too.
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